Question 1 (25 marks)
Objective:
1. Apply business economics to test your knowledge and understanding in evaluating a cloud provider and to formulate the actual cost of hosting a website in a public cloud.
Question Details:
The organization that you are working in has decided to migrate your official internal staff portal to a public cloud service provider to maximize potential cost savings. However, due to the size and complexity of the existing facility, which supports over 5,000 users world-wide, they have decided to embark on a test pilot project. This test pilot project has been scaled down to about 10% of the actual requirements. Among the short-listed public cloud providers are the following:
(a) Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(b) Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
(c) Microsoft Azure (MA)
The following are specific details of this test pilot project:
 The test pilot project uses a customized HTML/PHP content management system, operating on TCP port 8080, that works best with the Linux operating system and the Apache web server. It does not require the use of any relational databases
 All users of the test pilot project will be based in Singapore
 The test pilot project shall comprise of a single web server and the web server instance should contain at least 4 virtual CPU cores and no less than 15GB of RAM
 The entire system architecture should be housed in a single region and are to remain available 24×7